Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years now.
—Dr.William Castelli
elegy
A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."